Motivational Quotes

Money

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Money

If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

Proverb, Chinese

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Charles Dickens

Many folks think they aren't good at earning money, when what they don't know is how to use it.

Clark, Frank A.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Lawana Blackwell

Our income are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and trip.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Do not be fooled into believing that because a man is rich he is necessarily smart. There is ample proof to the contrary.

Julius Rosenwald

It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor -- as long as you've got money.

Lewis, Joe E.

you must get money to chase you, but never let it catch up.

Waitley, Denis

If all the rich people in the world divided up their money among themselves there wouldn't be enough to go around.

Christina Stead

10.

Dollars! All their cares, hopes, joys, affections, virtues, and associations seemed to be melted down into dollars. Whatever the chance contributions that fell into the slow cauldron of their talk, they made the gruel thick and slab with dollars. Men were weighed by their dollars, measures were gauged by their dollars; life was auctioned, appraised, put up, and knocked down for its dollars. The next respectable thing to dollars was any venture having their attainment for its end. The more of that worthless ballast, honor and fair-dealing, which any man cast overboard from the ship of his Good Nature and Good Intent, the more ample stowage-room he had for dollars. Make commerce one huge lie and mighty theft. Deface the banner of the nation for an idle rag; pollute it star by star; and cut out stripe by stripe as from the arm of a degraded soldier. Do anything for dollars! What is a flag to them!

Dickens, Charles

11.

You can't fatten the pig on market day.

Howard, John

12.

The basic principle of turning ideas into big money is to seize every money building idea and work with it until the idea fits your purpose, decide on the steps needed to make it work, and then proceed to do it as soon as possible.

Newcomb, Duane

13.

The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

Keynes, John Maynard

14.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

Sir Henry Taylor

15.

If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.

Oliver, Vic

16.

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

Swift, Jonathan

17.

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Kin Hubbard

18.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

W. Somerset Maugham

19.

It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.

Keynes, John Maynard

21.

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin

22.

Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.

Clark, Frank A.

23.

We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation.

Burgess, Anthony

24.

If you marry for money, you will surely earn it.

Bowen, Ezra

25.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Ken Hakuta

26.

Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them.

Gillies, Jerry

27.

In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.

Diderot, Denis

28.

I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.

Jackie Mason

29.

Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

Byron, Lord

30.

Getting money is like digging with a needle, spending it is like water soaking into sand.

Proverb, Japanese

31.

The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any.

Katharine Whitehorn

32.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Senator Everett Dirksen

33.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

Donald Trump

34.

Thought, not money, is the real business capital...

Firestone, Harvey S.

35.

If you cannot make money on one dollar, if you do not coax one dollar to work hard for you, you won't know how to make money out of one hundred thousand dollars.

Kinnear, E. S.

36.

All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

37.

Money is like an arm or leg -- use it or lose it.

Ford, Henry

38.

Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

Rohn, Jim

39.

Don't be too busy earning a living to make any money.

Karbo, Joe

40.

A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

Fields, W. C.

41.

We might make a public moan in the newspapers about the decay of conscience, but in private conversation, no matter what crimes a man may have committed or how cynically he may have debased his talent or his friends, variations on the answer Yes, but I did it for the money, satisfy all but the most tiresome objections.

Lapham, Lewis H.

42.

The covetous man never has money. The prodigal will have none shortly.

Johnson, Ben

43.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

Milligan, Spike

44.

The only wealth is life.

Thoreau, Henry David

45.

Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.

Ovid

46.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Gibran, Kahlil

47.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.

Fulghum, Robert

48.

Money without brains is always dangerous.

Hill, Napoleon

49.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

Sophocles